6.
Notes General Assembly resolution 50/170 of 22 December 1995, in which
the Assembly welcomed the emphasis by the persons chairing the human rights
treaty bodies that the enjoyment of the human rights of women should be closely
monitored by each treaty body within the competence of its mandate;
7.
Encourages the Division for the Advancement of Women to provide any
relevant material it receives or prepares, through the Centre for Human Rights,
for the information of the treaty bodies in their work;
8.
Encourages the Division for the Advancement of Women to continue to
develop methodologies to analyse gender perspectives in the reports of the
States parties that are being considered by the treaty bodies;
9.
Encourages the Division for the Advancement of Women to cooperate with
and assist the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and
consequences through the automatic and regular exchange of information and by
forwarding expeditiously any relevant material it receives or prepares on
violence against women;
10. Emphasizes the need to develop and enhance the role of focal points on
the human rights of women, in both the Centre for Human Rights and the Division
for the Advancement of Women, and to ensure cooperation and coordination between
the two bodies on an ongoing basis;
11. Encourages the Division for the Advancement of Women and the Centre
for Human Rights to explore the possibility of providing training in the human
rights of women and of training personnel in the Division for the Advancement of
Women in general human rights matters;
12. Encourages the efforts made by the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights, within the mandate established by General Assembly resolution
48/141 of 20 December 1993, to promote and protect the human rights of women,
including his efforts to coordinate the activities of relevant United Nations
organs, bodies and mechanisms dealing with human rights in considering
violations of the human rights of women;
13. Emphasizes the need for all relevant organs, bodies and agencies of
the United Nations system to include information on gender-based human rights
violations in their activities and integrate the findings into all of their
programmes and activities;
14. Urges States to consider the gender composition of the treaty bodies
when nominating and electing candidates to such bodies;
15. Emphasizes the need for the United Nations Decade for Human Rights
Education to incorporate a gender perspective into all its activities and the
importance of drafting the mid-Decade report and the final report on the Decade
so as to include mainstreaming of the human rights of women, ensuring that the
evaluation criteria of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for
those reports include whether the human rights of women are a mainstream
concern;
16. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Commission on the
Status of Women at its forty-first session, in 1997, on the implementation of
the present resolution;
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